Screening room, family pictures, Alan Lightman
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Screening room, family pictures, Alan Lightman
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Screening room
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
869919481
Responsibility statement
Alan Lightman
Sub title
family pictures
Summary
"Lightman's grandfather M.A. Lightman was the family's undisputed patriarch: it was his movie theater empire that catapulted the Lightmans to prominence in the South, his fearless success that both galvanized and paralyzed his children and grandchildren. In this ... memoir, the author chronicles his return to Memphis in an attempt to understand the origins he so eagerly left behind forty years earlier. As aging uncles and aunts begin telling family stories, Lightman rediscovers his southern roots and slowly recognizes the errors in his perceptions of both his grandfather and his father, who was himself crushed by M.A."--Dust jacket flap
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